Where: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51.8° N, 8.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 8.9° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Beckum Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• upper Beckum Beds near the border to the Vorhelm Beds; lower Upper Campanian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. Hübner and A. Müller. 2010. Selachian teeth from Campanian sediments (Upper Cretaceous) of the Münsterland Cretaceous Basin (NW Germany). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 84:437-455 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 101701: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Centroscymnus praecursor Muller and Schollmann 1989 sleeper shark
Cretascymnus westfalicus Muller and Schollmann 1989 sleeper shark | |
Pararhincodon groessensi collared carpetshark | |
Chiloscyllium sp. Müller and Henle 1837 carpet shark |